Siddhant Baldota — Senior Software Engineer
I’m Siddhant Baldota — a Machine Learning & Software Engineer working at Maxlinear, Inc. in Carlsbad. As a Senior Software Engineer at MaxLinear, I am working on the company's flagship storage accelerator product, Panther, designing and coding APIs, libraries and drivers in C and Python on the user space as well as the kernel space. My capabilities include being hands-on with the silicon, setting up unit and functional test cases as well as bringing up emulation based use cases. Apart from the storage accelerator project, I have set up real-time perception pipelines for object detection and tracking, audio classification) in PyTorch/TorchScript/OpenVINO and make them work on outdated x86 Atom cores in Wi-Fi access points with sub-50 ms latency. Moreover, I have worked on creating network packet generators and parsers for upstream and downstream interfaces. I earned my M.S. in Computer Science from UC San Diego, where I worked at the San Diego Supercomputer Center on multimodal wildfire smoke detection (satellite + weather + cameras). Our work was published in Remote Sensing (MDPI, 2023) and presented at NeurIPS 2022. Earlier, I collaborated with clinicians at UCL, University of Kentucky, and NHS (Luton & Dunstable) on deep-learning-based THA implant recognition, presented as an e-poster at SICOT 2021 (Budapest). Before grad school, I led the Autonomous Underwater Vehicle software team (12 people): ROS, PID control, path planning, camera calibration, and underwater object detection in the real world. Tech: C/C++, Python, Bash; PyTorch, OpenVINO, TensorFlow; OpenCV; Docker, GitLab CI/CD; performance profiling & optimization. Writing: Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=-lAVQXEAAAAJ Articles (50k+ views): https://medium.com/@sidatwork99 Patent: I contributed to optimize the compression speed of the XP10 algorithm in software using search space pruning techniques. This work led to an international patent (WO2025128604A1) on compression. https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2025128604A1/en Paper: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/15/11/2790 I’m open to ML/CV software roles (runtime optimization, edge inference, AR/VR & spatial computing) — especially at teams like Apple (Vision/ARKit). Let’s connect: siddhantbaldota@gmail.com GitHub: https://github.com/sid0312 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/siddhant-baldota
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Machine Learning and Computer Vision expert in the AI and Research sectors.
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Experience: 6 yrs 5 mos
Skills
- Machine Learning
- Firmware Development
- Computer Vision
- Software Development
- Technical Writing
Career Highlights
- Innovated and patented a data compression algorithm.
- Led a team for autonomous underwater vehicle software development.
- Published research on wildfire smoke detection at NeurIPS 2022.
Work Experience
MaxLinear
Senior Software Engineer | AI, Firmware | C, C++, Python (3 yrs 5 mos)
Software Engineer Intern (3 mos)
San Diego Supercomputer Center
Graduate Student Researcher, AI and Computer Vision (8 mos)
Research Assistant, Image Processing and Computer Vision (5 mos)
UCL
Student Researcher (7 mos)
SRM University
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Computer Vision and Deep Learning (8 mos)
Team SRMAUV - SRM Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
Software Lead (6 mos)
Software Developer (8 mos)
L&T Technology Services Limited
Computer Vision Intern (0 mo)
Studyopedia
Technical Subject Matter Expert (1 mo)
Education
Master of Science - MS at UC San Diego
Bachelor of Technology - BTech at SRM IST Chennai
School at St. Mary's ICSE School